Warsaw mayor candidates debate

Civic Platform member and incumbent Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz faced Law and Justice candidate Jacek Sasin at a debate transmitted by major Polish television stations on Saturday evening. Gronkiewicz-Waltz collected 47.19 percent of the votes in the Polish capital, while Jacek Sasin got 27.31 percent. The second round of the mayoral election is scheduled for November 30, two weeks after the first. At the debate, it was pointed out that Sasin does not pay taxes in Warsaw, as a resident of one of the neighboring municipalities. He is turned accused the current mayor of not communicating with the capital city's dwellers. The opponents agreed that a key problem in Warsaw is the reprivatization issue, with many plots across the city subject to ownership claims.